Free Snippets for Twitter Bootstrap, Examples of Websites

Bootstrap is an elegant, intuitively easy and powerful interface framework, increasing speed and making it easy to develop applications for the web. It includes HTML and CSS templates of design for typography, web forms, buttons, labels, navigation units, and other web interface components, including JavaScript extensions.

Bootstrap is created for designers and developers with any level of knowledge and experience, for bearded oldsters and beginners. You can use it both entirely, for full-fledged design, and partially – in your projects.

Bootstrap uses the latest developments in the sphere of CSS and HTML, therefore you should pay attention to the support of the old browser. Where the good old CSS fails, LESS comes. Variables, nested functions, operators in LESS make CSS development quick and more efficient.

Main features of Bootstrap

Grids – pre-defined sizes of columns, which can be used immediately, e.g. column width 90px relates to .span2 class, which can be used in the CSS description of document

Templates – Fixed or flexible document template

Typography – Description of fonts, definition of certain classes for fonts, such as code, quotes, etc.

Medias – Offers certain management of images and Videos

Tables – Design tools for tables, up to adding functionality to sorting

Forms – Design classes for not only forms, but also certain related events

Even without modifications, the created layout is suitable for many things

It can be used for administrative panels

It can be used for web applications without claims in respect of design, for which all thingies are not important

You can quickly sketch a prototype of your page in the course of development, and use the needed interface later

Information on CSS Framework for the beginners

CSS Framework was initially made for resets for IE, which means that some settings of Internet Explorer styles were reset from NORMAL. For example, border was removed from pictures.

Then, people started defaulting for purposes of good look. This means headers, column width, stripes and margins. Defaulting was used to such extent, that, a style being connected, each awful page became improved. Then, bearded monkeys moved to forms. Various inputs, beautiful elements let graphics be easily connected, but thank God, CSS3 degenerated, and graphics were essentially rejected.

Then, someone in the crowd shouted: “Down with grids!” And span16 was invented. Others wanted span24. Rubber was rejected, and finally, with the advent of HTML5 with one wave of hand, it became possible to make a site of unprecedented precision with literally a wave of heel above the keyboard.

The freshest historical tendency is represented exactly by Bootstrap, CSS3 started changing substantially for inquiring minds, and LESS came up.

Examples of websites created with Bootstrap

Flat UI Free

Flat UI Free is a comprehensive collection of pixel-perfect HTML/CSS-based elements that are essential for the majority of website designs. Each one is enhanced by flat style, gorgeous bright coloring and of course Bootstrap foundation. While the premium version lets bring into life any crazy idea, the freemium version also has something to marvel at. Thus, you will become an owner of

numerous buttons;

several types of navigation menus;

sleek inputs;

progress bars and sliders;

toggles and tags;

checkboxes and radio buttons and some others.

What’s more, there are fancy CSS effects that accompany several items and new web-font icons.

Scoutzie

Although the project was officially closed, however this one-page structure with a ‘good-bye’ letter looks simply fantastic. It is clean and accurate with a strong focus on the content. The header image nicely flows into the design, lightening up the atmosphere. It looks great on tablets and mobile devices.

Jojari

Jojari is an excellent example how to get the most out of modular system provided by Bootstrap Boilerplate. The classic and reliable horizontal stripe layout that underlies the front page holds sections with varied number of columns to meet the amount of data. Color differentiation also makes its important contribution naturally separating text and widgets from the backdrop.

leanIX

Much like the previous example, the website lays out the content in two, three and more columns quite effectively. Although on the contrast to the Jojari, here sections take up less space resulting in a more compact structure, yet thanks to grid and relatively huge gutters the readability does not suffer and great deal of data does not overwhelm readers.

Resource Guru

While bright green that seizes the whole header background instantly catches the eye and unobtrusively evokes a sense of serenity, peace and harmony; the overall structure also boasts of well-balanced look and equilibrium between all the parts. Thanks to Bootstrap foundation, the website is handy to use on any device, whether you are surfing it via mobile or desktop device.

Joostrap

Providing users with reliable and good-looking Joomla templates that are driven by Bootstrap, the team demonstrates how to turn the foundation to its advantage on practice. With a ton of data to display, the front page deals with this task pretty efficiently. Each box with content whether it is simple text or multimedia seems to be on its own place.

EISENHOWER

Sticking to Bootstrap-powered grid system, the website has a responsive and mobile-friendly layout that hits the targeted audience regardless of a device they are using. Every element of UI starting from a clean monochrome backdrop and ending with sharp formal typography enhances user experience and let the overall design produce an excellent impression.

Improvely

Much like a service that is advertised here, the website needs to handle a generous amount of content. Though with a helping hand of Bootstrap framework, this hurdle has been easily overcome. At first sight, the front page looks content-heavy, however it can be quickly scanned. Data is broken into digestible portions that located within neatly-arranged cells. Altogether, they form a secure structure.

Accord

Accord is a flexible and viable WordPress theme that is created for bloggers. It is meant to cover a gazillion of posts and present them in non-intrusive and enjoyable manner. Thus the homepage takes the best features of grid system and cards design, creating order out of chaos with an ease. It also includes

nine custom widgets;

infinite scroll;

two types of navigations;

post badges;

Ajax contact form and much more.

Claystone

Claystone is powered by Bootstrap so that it knows how to deal with a generous amount of multimedia properly. Putting everything into a traditional yet robust grid system, it saves the homepage from looking messy and cluttered. It relies on a minimalistic style that is quite beneficial in such situations. Moreover, it comes with

Bootsnipp is a great resource for Bootstrap snippets and I can’t wait to see how they progress in the coming months. They just added submissions and voting is in the pipeline!

Divshot also leverages Twitter Bootstrap in an awesome way — it allows you to drag and drop Bootstrap components and then export to clean HTML and CSS. Saves so much time when you need to quickly prototype an app.